Harrison 2005 and Benjamin 2009

Do you think they look alike?

Through the years at Bishops Pumpkin Farm

2006

2007

2008

2009

Going on a toad hunt, Part Two

What's more exciting than having your friends over to catch some toads. Well really not much to these kids the night after Harrison and Madeline caught their first toad. Austin, Baylee and Riley came over and went on another toad hunt. Baylee and Riley were not shy about holding them. Austin and Madeline did, but they quickly handed them off. And Harrison is all about looking and not touching.


Riley and Baylee each with a toad.


Madeline holding the little toad.

Austin with the toad.

All of the kids holding the box that has the toads.

Going on a toad hunt!!

Harrison, Madeline and Daddy went exploring in our backyard one night last week. Of course they found a toad! Harrison was desperate to catch it. One problem he won't touch it. So he tried using a sword and a box to get it. He chased it up and down our back yard fence. Then he tried to get Madeline to catch it. But he was too quick. Finally Dad stepped in and helped them catch it (without touching it of course) The kids were so excited!!!


The catch!


Harrison trying to convince it to climb on his sword.

Madeline going for the catch

Yeah we got him!

Releasing the toad.

PS. No toads were harmed during the filming of Going on a toad hunt.

Our trip to Monterey

Here are some of my favorite pictures from this weekend.

Rainbow Cake

We decided to make a cake one Sunday for dinner. The kids had a great time. Here it is:

Gardening .01!

I blogged about our garden earlier in the summer, when we picked our peas. Well we finally decided to pick the rest of our crops from our Garden. It was a great learning experience, but thankfully no one expects to live off of our garden as the size of our crops was not exactly hugh.

Madeline picking our pumpkins.


Harrison picking our pumpkins


All of our pumpkins

Harrison with our first carrot

Harrison, a carrot and our onion crop in his whole hand.

Tim proudly displaying our onion crop.

Madeline walking the corn fields

Madeline done gardening.

Loading the tractor with the pumpkin crop

Farmer Harrison ready to move the crop

Driving the tractor (I think its a John Deere 4020)

Ready to unload

Madeline on her tractor

My beautiful children.

Earlier in the day we went to the pumpkin farm where we bought the hugh pumkin. The guys there used a tractor to bring it to our car, the kids enjoyed picking it and watching the tractor bring it to the car. Hence the idea to bring our pumkins to the front.